Patents Assigned to Microsoft Technology
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Patent number: 12282411Abstract: Some embodiments generate prompts and submit them in queries to a language model trained on code to perform automated program repair. Some embodiments fix syntactic mistakes and semantic mistakes by combining multimodal prompts, iterative querying, test-case-based selection of few-shots, and program chunking. In some cases, edit distance is minimized between an initial flawed program and the automatically created improved version of that program. The initial flawed program is obtained from a programming student, or from a source code generator.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jialu Zhang, José Pablo Cambronero Sánchez, Gustavo Araujo Soares, Vu Minh Le, Sumit Gulwani, Gust Ben Anneloes Verbruggen
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Patent number: 12282375Abstract: A method of thermal and power control in a computing device includes, at the computing device, initializing a thermal module of the computing device, receiving data at the thermal module from a first component assigned to an interface of the thermal module, and sending an output to a second component from the thermal module based on the data. Initializing the thermal module includes detecting a presence of a plurality of potential components of the computing device; querying each of the plurality of potential components to determine capabilities of each component; in response to the querying, for each of at least a subset of the plurality of potential components receiving identification information for the component and, based on the received identification information, configuring one or more interfaces of the plurality of predefined interfaces of the thermal module to establish communication with the sub set of components.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Mika Juhani Rintamaeki, Gregory Allen Nielsen, Rajagopal K. Venkatachalam, Ajit Justin, Francisco Cantu De La Garza
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Patent number: 12282503Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically determining an intent of a user based on an intent model to attach a file to a document, prompting the user to confirm the intent using a predetermined character in an inline nudge, generating and displaying an inline menu with an interactive list of ranked files as a suggestion for attachment. The disclosed technology uses the intent for specifying a scope of the inline search. The intent model for attaching content maintained by third-party applications uses a combination of an embeddings model and an N-gram model with limited seed queries and determines the intent based on intent scores associated with respective third-party applications. The present disclosure ranks respective candidate content based on a degree of relevance to the intent. The user selects one or more content from the list for attaching to the document.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Thomas Constantin, Matthew Sledge Epstein, TszYan C Zogg, Lutfi Ilke Kaya, Christopher Andrews Jung, Ragavenderan Venkatesan, Ming Wu, Zhiguo Yu
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Patent number: 12282731Abstract: Systems and methods for using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate a suggested draft reply to a selected message. A message generation system and method are described that use guardrails that prevent unnecessary AI model processing and accidental sending of an AI model-generated draft. In some examples, draft reply-generation is limited to a subset of messages (e.g., focused, non-confidential) and triggering of the draft reply generation is performed only after user interaction criteria are satisfied. In some examples, a confirmation message is presented when the draft reply is attempted to be sent with no changes or quickly after the draft is generated. For instance, the guardrails limit the number of times the AI model is invoked to generate suggested replies and further prevents users from accidentally sending drafts generated from the AI model.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Caleb Whitmore, Susan Marie Grimshaw, Poonam Ganesh Hattangady
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Patent number: 12282737Abstract: In some examples, systems and methods for generating predicted ink strokes, using ink-based semantics, are provided. Ink stroke data may be received, the ink stroke data and a semantic context may be input into a model. From the model, one or more predicted ink strokes may be determined. Further, an indication of the one or more predicted ink strokes may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steven N. Bathiche, Moshe R. Lutz
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Patent number: 12284348Abstract: Innovations in control and use of chroma quantization parameter (“QP”) values that depend on hum QP values. More generally, the innovations relate to control and use of QP values for a secondary color component that depend on QP values for a primary color component. For example, during encoding, an encoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset. The encoder maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range. The encoder outputs at least part of a bitstream including the encoded content. A corresponding decoder receives at least part of a bitstream including encoded content. During decoding, the decoder determines a QP index from a primary component QP and secondary component QP offset, then maps the QP index to a secondary component QP, which has an extended range.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Sandeep Kanumuri
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Patent number: 12282546Abstract: A system to detect an abnormal classic authorizations, such as in a classic authorization system of a resource access management system, and take action is described. The system determines an anomaly score in from a model applied to a classic assignment event. An indicator score is determined from the classic assignment event applied to domain-based rules. The security action is taken based on a combination of the anomaly score and the indicator score.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Idan Hen, Ilay Grossman, Avichai Ben David
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Patent number: 12284028Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to improving security of radio frequency (RF) backscattered communication. In one example, a RF device includes a primary RF signal receiver, a secondary signal receiver, a signal mixer, and a transmitter. The primary RF signal receiver is configured to receive a RF carrier signal sent from a base station. The secondary signal receiver is configured to receive a masking signal from the base station. The signal mixer is configured to generate a response signal based at least on the RF carrier signal and generate a mixed signal by mixing the response signal and the masking signal. The transmitter is configured to broadcast the mixed signal, via backscattering, as a masked backscattered signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan, Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Mike Nakahara, Vikram Subramaniam Iyer, Harsh Sandesh Desai
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Patent number: 12282727Abstract: Systems and method directed to assistive document generation are described. More specifically, similar documents share large portions of reusable text structures that can be used to generate an initial document thereby saving a user time. To generate the document, an indication to create the document may be received and based on the indication, a plurality of example documents and grounding content may be identified. Example documents may be existing documents that are similar to a target document of the writer. Grounding information may refer to content that is relevant, timely, and accurate when applied to the target document. The plurality of example documents and the grounding content may be received, and a document sketch based on the example documents and the grounding content may be generated and contains a plurality of predicted text sequences based on the example documents and the grounding content.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: William B. Dolan, Zeqiu Wu, Michel Galley, Yizhe Zhang, Zhang Li, Christopher John Brockett
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Patent number: 12282364Abstract: A computing device includes a hinge rotatably coupling a first leaf including a touch display and a second leaf. A hinge angle sensor measures a hinge angle between the first leaf and the second leaf. An inertial measurement unit measures an orientation of one or both of the leaves. A first touch heat map is received from the touch display. Based on the touch heat map, hinge angle, and orientation, a posture probability is generated indicating a likelihood that the first touch display is in a candidate display posture, and an active probability is generated indicating a likelihood that the first touch display is an active display. One or more display characteristics of the first touch display are adjusted based on the posture probability and the active probability.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Chirag Shah, Stefan Angelevski
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Patent number: 12282484Abstract: Techniques of federation of data during query time are disclosed herein. One example technique includes upon receiving an indication of interaction of a file by a user of a tenant, determining whether automatic replication of the file to a user shard corresponding to the user is permitted according to a company policy or a legal requirement, the user shard being in a second geographic region. The example technique can then include when automatic replication of the file is not permitted, storing the file in a tenant shard corresponding to the tenant in a network storage in the first geographic region and instead of replicating the file to the user shard in the second geographic region, creating, in the user shard in the second geographic region, a file reference that is a pointer to the file stored in the tenant shard in the network storage in the first geographic region.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Helge Grenager Solheim, Åge Andre Kvalnes, Runar Bergheim Olsen, Christian Thuv, Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg, Tor Kreutzer, Kai-Marius Sæther Pedersen, Bjørn Erik Olsrød, Bård Kvalheim, Jeffrey Lawrence Wight
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Patent number: 12284243Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to multi-user, multi-device gaze tracking. In examples, a system includes at least one processor, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the system to perform a set of operations. The set of operations include identifying a plurality of computing devices, and identifying one or more users. The set of operations may further include receiving gaze input data and load data, from two or more of the plurality of computing devices. The set of operations may further include performing load balancing between the plurality of devices, wherein the load balancing comprises assigning one or more tasks from a first of the plurality of computing devices to a second of the plurality of computing devices based upon the gaze input data.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jatin Sharma, Kenneth P. Hinckley, Jay C. Beavers, Michel Pahud
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Patent number: 12282380Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating efficient retrieval of diagnostic information from a computing endpoint that experiences a failure condition. For example, systems described herein may detect or otherwise identify a failure condition associating with the computing endpoint operating in an erroneous or unpredictable matter. Systems described herein may involve carving out a portion of memory on the computing endpoint that is accessible to a host system (e.g., a CPU). Systems described herein may further provide a discoverable resource that enables a host system to identify and collect the diagnostic data in response to identifying a failure condition in an efficient manner and without requiring that the computing endpoint be capable of responding to data requests.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Vishal Jain, Teague Curtiss Mapes, Jonathan Kent Ross
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Patent number: 12282578Abstract: Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for improving phishing webpage content detection. A method can include instantiating an odometer with a nested privacy filter architecture, the nested privacy filter including privacy filters of different, increasing sizes, training a DL model, maintaining, during training and by a privacy odometer that operates using the nested privacy filter, a running total of privacy loss budget consumed by the training, and responsive to a query for the total privacy loss budget consumed, returning, by the odometer, a size of a smallest privacy filter of the nested privacy filters that is bigger than the running total of the privacy loss budget.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Mathias François Roger Lécuyer
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Patent number: 12284150Abstract: A system for creating a target audience group includes receiving a request from a user interface screen, to create a target audience group from among users of an organization associated with a cloud computing environment, where the request including selected values for a plurality of categories of data associated with the users of the organization. Upon receiving the request; the method creates an audience targeting definition for the target audience group that includes the plurality of categories of data and their selected values and stores the audience targeting definition to a data store. Next, one or more data sources of the cloud computing environment are queried to identify users for which values for the categories of data corresponds with the selected values and a list of those users is stored in a different data store.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Gaurav Bindlish, Harish Jayanti, Payel Hazra, Mitali Prakash Shenoy, Srinivasa Raghavan Santhanam, Derrick Yeqiang Quan, Kfir Ami-Ad
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Patent number: 12284372Abstract: A method of encoding video streams includes, at an encoding device, receiving a first video stream frame from a first server device at the encoding device at a first receipt time; receiving a second video stream frame from a second server device at the encoding device at a second receipt time; encoding the first video stream frame with the encoding device; determining a delay duration based at least partially on a first encoding duration of the first video stream frame and the second receipt time; and transmitting a delay instruction based at least partially on the delay duration to the second server device.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Scott David Mosier
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Patent number: 12282855Abstract: According to implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a solution for auto-formatting of a data table. A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining values of at least one attribute for a plurality of cells in a data table, the values of the at least one attribute indicating at least one of a semantic meaning of data filled in the cells or a structure of the data table, the cells being arranged in rows and columns in the data table; extracting a feature representation of the values of the at least one attribute In using a first learning network; and determining respective formats for the cells based on the feature representation using at least the first learning network. In this way, it is possible to implement automatic mapping from attribute settings of cells to cell formats by using a learning network, thereby achieving auto-formatting of the data table.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Haoyu Dong, Zhouyu Fu, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
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Patent number: 12282371Abstract: A status monitoring system includes a status sensor configured to monitor a status of an electronic circuit. If the status monitoring system detects a status that exceeds a threshold, the status monitoring system records the details of the event on the electronic circuit. The status monitoring system operates in a low-power power mode during transit from a manufacturing facility to an installation location.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Luke Thomas Gregory, Rick Chun Kit Cheung
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Patent number: 12283483Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a nanowire structure. According to an exemplary process, a substrate is firstly provided. An intact buffer region is formed over the substrate, and a sacrificial top portion of the intact buffer region is eliminated to provide a buffer layer with a planarized top surface. Herein, the planarized top surface has a vertical roughness below 10 ?. Next, a patterned mask with an opening is formed over the buffer layer, such that a portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer is exposed. A nanowire is formed over the exposed portion of the planarized top surface of the buffer layer through the opening of the patterned mask. The buffer layer is configured to have a lattice constant that provides a transition between the lattice constant of the substrate and the lattice constant of the nanowire.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Geoffrey C. Gardner, Sergei V. Gronin, Raymond L. Kallaher, Michael James Manfra
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Patent number: 12282648Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing a customizable and animatable popup card system. The popup card system includes animatable popup cards and popup card user interface (“UI”) elements, with location awareness functionality and scrolling awareness functionality. A user experience (“UX”) that is generated and displayed by the popup card system is adaptive to a multitude of scenarios and app (e.g., window) surfaces and is responsive to a variety of user inputs (including via mouse, keyboard, pen/stylus, touch, and voice). Transitioning between popup card states and/or between corresponding popup cards is smooth and seamless, and is anchored within the UI or app window, without need for users to navigate to another page or app to complete an action triggered by user input.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Xin Liu, Chaochao Huang